DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SATAVAHANA UNIVERSITY UG GENERAL ENGLISH (CBCS) 2017-18 LESSON ONE TEXT THE TOUCH BY ABBURI CHAYADEVI (SHORT FICTION) GRAMMAR CONCORD ETYMOLOGY WORD ORIGIN P V NARASIMHA RAO READING COMPREHENSION LETTER WRITING WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS LISTENING SKILLS: TIPS TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS, BARRIES TO LISTENING
BRAIN STORMING SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS LESSON TWO TEXT TO STUDENTS BY M K GANDHI (PROSE)
GRAMMAR WORDS AND THEIR FORMS STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF VOCABULARY WORDS READING COMPREHENSION TEMPLE STORY
NOTE MAKING / NOTE TAKING WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS EFFECTIVE LISTENING: CONVERSATION SKILLS SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS JAM LESSON THREE TEXT THE BAT MESSANGER BY JASHUVA (POETRY)
GRAMMAR SPOTTING THE ERRORS
WORDS IN ENGLISH FROM OTHER VOCABULARY LANGUAGES READING COMPREHENSION PERINI, THE PROUD HERITAGE OF TELANGANA WRITING PROVERB EXPANSION
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LANGUAGE SKILLS READING SKILLS: SKIMMING AND SCANNING SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS ORAL PRESENTATION LESSSON FOUR TEXT RAMANUJAN BY PARTAP SEHGAL (DRAMA) GRAMMAR PUTTING JUMBLED WORDS AND SENTENCES IN ORDER
VOCABULARY DERIVATION READING COMPREHENSION MIMICRY PARAGRAPH WRITING / ESSAY WRITING WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS CONVERSATION SKILLS
SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS DIALOGUE WRITING LESSON FIVE TEXT ARJUN BY MAHASWETHA DEVI (SHORT FICTION) SENTENCE COMPLETION GRAMMAR WORD FORMATION VOCABULARY READING COMPREHENSION YADI SADASHIVA, A GENIUS PAR EXCELLENCE E-CORRESPONDENCE: E-MAILS WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS ROLE PLAY LESSON SIX TEXT WOMEN (AURAT) BY ISMAT (PROSE) CHUGHTAI GRAMMAR CLOSE TEST SPOONERISM, TONGUE TWISTERS, VOCABULARY MALAPROPISM, OXYMORON READING COMPREHENSION ELAGANDAL FORT, VEMULAWADA
WRITING REPORT WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS PUBLIC SPEAKING
SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEBATES
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LESSON SEVEN TEXT FATHER RETURNING HOME (POETRY) BY DILIP CHITRE GRAMMAR SYTHESIS OF SENTENCES
VOCABULARY ONOMATOPOEIA READING COMPREHENSION ART FORMS: PEMBARTHY, NIRMAL
WRITING CREATIVE WRITING LANGUAGE SKILLS READING: INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE READING SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS GROUP DISCUSSIONS (GDS) LESSON EIGHT TEXT JATRA BY ARJUN DEO CHARAN (DRAMA)
GRAMMAR TRANSFORMATION OF SENTENCES
VOCABULARY ORIGIN OF PHRASES READING COMPREHENSION JANAPADA JATARA. OGGU KATHA WRITING CURRICULUM VITAE LANGUAGE SKILLS PARAPHRASING SOFT & COMMUNICATION SKILLS MOCK INTERVIEW
UG GENERAL ENGLISH (CBCS) 2016-17
LESSON ONE (SHORT TEXT OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE by FICTION) Ernest Hemingway
PRONUNICIATION CONSONANTAL SOUNDS GRAMMAR ARTICLES VOCABULARY SYNONYMS SPELLING PICK OUT THE MISSPELT WORDS CONVERSATIONS ICE-BREAKING READING PASSAGE RUDRAMA DEVI LIFE SKILLS SELF-AWARENESS 3
LESSON TWO (PROSE) TEXT INDIA AND DEMOCRACY by Dr.B.R.AMBEDKAR PRONUNICIATION VOWEL SOUNDS: MONOPHTHONGS GRAMMAR PREPOSITIONS VOCABULARY ANTONYMS SPELLING USE OF ‘UN’ OR ‘DIS’ CONVERSATIONS INTRODUCING READING PASSAGE MEDARAM JATARA LIFE SKILLS EMPATHY LESSON THREE (POETRY) TEXT THE SCRIBE by WALTER DE LA MARE PRONUNICIATION VOWEL SOUNDS: DIPHTHONGS GRAMMAR TENSES VOCABULARY HOMOPHONES & HOMONYMS SPELLING USE OF ‘TION’ OR ‘SION’ CONVERSATIONS DESCRIBING A PERSON/PLACE/EVENT READING PASSAGE KALOJI LIFE SKILLS CRITICAL THINKING & CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS LESSON FOUR (DRAMA) TEXT THE NEVER-NEVER NEST by CEDRIC MOUNT PRONUNICIATION PLOSIVES GRAMMAR FRAMING QUESTIONS VOCABULARY ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTES SPELLING USE OF ‘MENT’ CONVERSATIONS GIVING DIRECTIONS READING PASSAGE KUNTALA WATERFALL LIFE SKILLS DECISION-MAKING SKILL LESSON FIVE (SHORT TEXT THE RELUCTANT PHILANTHROPIST FICTION) by GOLLAPUDI SRINIVASA RAO
PRONUNICIATION FRICATIVES GRAMMAR DISCOURSE MARKERS VOCABULARY IDIOMS & PHRASES SPELLING USE OF ‘IE’ AND ‘EI’ CONVERSATIONS SEEKING INFORMATION READING BATHUKAMMA PASSAGE LIFE SKILLS PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILL LESSON SIX (PROSE) TEXT ON READING BOOKS by VIRGINIA WOOLF PRONUNICIATION AFFRICATES & NASALS GRAMMAR VOICE & DEGREES OF COMPARISON
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VOCABULARY PHRASAL VERBS SPELLING USE OF ‘ABLE’ & ‘IBLE’ CONVERSATIONS ORGANIZING A MEETING/INVITING GUESTS READING RAMAPPA PASSAGE LIFE SKILLS EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILL LESSON SEVEN (POETRY) TEXT AFTER BLENHEIM by ROBERT SOUTHEY PRONUNICIATION LATERALS, SEMI-VOWELS GRAMMAR REPORTING SPEECH & QUESTION TAGS VOCABULARY LEXIS/WORD-BUILDING SPELLING USE OF PREFIXES & SUFFIXES CONVERSATIONS ORGANIZING A MEETING/PROPOSING A VOTE OF THANKS READING BONALU PASSAGE LIFE SKILLS INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS LESSON EIGHT (DRAMA) TEXT THE INFORMER by BERTOLT BRECHT PRONUNICIATION SYLLABIC STRUCTURE GRAMMAR COMMON ERRORS VOCABULARY COLLOCATIONS SPELLING CONVERSATIONS READING KINNERASANI PASSAGE LIFE SKILLS COPING WITH STRESS AND EMOTIONS
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SYLLABUS COMPONENTS OF M.A. ENGLISH (With effect from the academic year 2017-18)
Previous Semester I (25 Credits) Paper I ENG 101: The English Language: History, Description and Practice (5C) Paper II ENG 102: English Poetry (5 Credits) Paper III ENG 103: English Drama (5 Credits) Paper IV ENG 104: (A) English Lg and Phonetics or (B) Discourse Analysis (4 C) Paper V ENG 105: (A) Modern Indian Literatures in Translation or (B) Cultural Studies (4 Credits) Seminars: 2 Hours per week ( 2 Credits) on approved topics Semester II (25 Credits) Paper I ENG 201: English Lg Teaching: History, Approaches and Methods (5C) Paper II ENG 202: English Prose ( 5 Credits) Paper III ENG 203: English Fiction (5 Credits) Paper IV ENG 204: (A) Women’s Writing OR (B) Gender Studies (4 Credits) Paper V ENG 205: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Theory or (B) Translation Studies (4 Credits) Seminars: 2 Hours per week ( 2 Credits) on approved topics Final Year Semester III (25 Credits) Paper I ENG 301: English Language Teaching: Classroom Techniques and Practical English (5 Credits) Paper II ENG 302: American Literature- I (5 Credits) Paper III ENG 303: Indian Writing in English-I (5 Credits) Paper IV ENG 304: (A) Postcolonial Literature OR (B) Modern European Literature in Translation (4 Credits) Paper V ENG 305: (Inter-disciplinary) – (A) Literature and Film or (B) Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (4 Credits) Seminars: 2 Hours per week (2 Credits) on approved topics
Semester IV (25 Credits) Paper I ENG 401: English Lg Teaching: Major Developments in L1 and L2 (5C) Paper II ENG 402: American Literature-II (5 Credits) Paper III ENG 403: Indian Writing in English—II (5 Credits) Paper IV ENG 404: (A) Academic Writing and Research Methodology OR (B) Fourth World Literatures (4 Credits) Paper V ENG 405: (A) Project Work or (B) South Asian Literature (4 Credits) Seminars: 2 Hours per week (2 Credits) on approved topics
Total Credits of 4 Semesters = 100
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Semester I Paper 1 ENG 101: The English Language: History, Description and Practice (5 Credits)
Unit I Indo-European Family of Languages and its Branches; Grimm’s Law Descent of English: Important features of Old English—Spelling and Pronunciation, Vocabulary Middle English and Modern English: the Norman conquest, Major Changes in the English Language during Middle English Period, The Rise of Standard English; General Characteristics of Modern English
Unit II Foreign Contribution to the Growth of Vocabulary: Influence of Greek, Latin, French and German on the English language Word Formation—Different Processes Change of Meaning—Different Processes
Unit III Structure of the English Noun Phrase Structure of the English Verb Phrase The Simple Sentence—its types, constituents and organization; Coordination and Subordination—their semantic implications
Unit IV Dialect: ‘The Standard’ Dialect; Idiolect; Register Style; Jargon; Slang British English and American English: Differences in Spelling and Pronunciation
Unit V Functional Grammar: Transformations: Direct and Reported Speech (Use of Reporting Verbs), Degrees of Comparison Functional English-I: Introducing oneself and others, Asking questions and giving polite replies, Complaining and Apologizing, Persuading people, Taking the initiative/Turn Taking Functional English-II: Seeking permission, Inviting friends / colleagues, Complimenting, Expressing sympathy, Telephone etiquette
Suggested Reading Baugh, A. C., & Cable, T. (2002). A History of the English Language. London: Routledge. Bradley, H. (1964). The Making of English. New York, NY: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Crystal, D. (2004). The Language Revolution. Malden, MA: Polity Press. Harmer, J. & Arnold, J. (1979). Advanced Speaking Skills. London: Longman. Jespersen, O. (1991). Growth and Structure of the English Language. Oxford: Blackwell. Klippel, F. (1984). Keep Talking. London: Cambridge University Press.
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Krishnaswamy, N. (1978). Modern English: A book of grammar, usage & composition. Madras: Macmillan India Limited. Quirk, R., & Greenbaum, S. (1973) A University Grammar of English. (Abridged). London: Longman. Sood, S.C., Bose, N., Jani, N., Krishnan, G., Sawhney, S., Singh, M.S. Varma. P. (eds). (2005). Developing Language Skills. New Delhi: Foundation Books. Wood, F T. (2000). An Outline History of the English Language. Chennai, TN: Macmillan India Yule, G. (1995). The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Paper II ENG 102 English Poetry (5 credits)
Unit I Background Renaissance-Reformation; Neo-Classicism; Fancy and Imagination; Pre- Raphaelites; War Poetry; Modernism-Postmodernism The General Prologue to the Unit II Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Tran. Nevill Coghill) lines 1-42 (“When in April … I therefore will begin”) John Milton Paradise Lost (Book One) John Donne “A Valediction”, “The Canonization”, Alexander Pope “The Rape of the Lock” (Canto One)
Unit III William Blake From Songs of Innocence (“The Lamb”, “The Chimney Sweeper”) From Songs of Experience (“The Tyger”, “London”) “Tintern Abbey”, “Anecdote for William Wordsworth Fathers” “Ode to the West Wind”, “To a P B Shelley Skylark” John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to a Nightingale”
Unit IV Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese 14 (“If thou must love me …”) 43 (“How do I love thee …”) Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ulysses”, “The Sailor Boy” Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “The Lost Leader” Matthew Arnold “Self-Dependence”, “Dover Beach”
Unit V T S Eliot The Waste Land Phillip Larkin “Best Society”, “Churchgoing” Seamus Heaney “Digging”, “Alphabets” Carol Ann Duffy “Originally”, “Havisham”
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Suggested Reading
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953. Childs, Peter. Modernism. New Critical Idiom Series. London: Routledge, 2003. Day, Aidan. Romanticism. New Critical Idiom Series. London: Routledge, 2003. Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Featherstone, Simon. Ed. War Poetry: An Introductory Reader. London: Routledge, 1995. Gardner, Helen. Ed. Metaphysical Poets. New York: Penguin, 1957. Kreutzer, James. Elements of Poetry. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Leavis, FR. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Penguin, 1939. Lewis , CS. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Oxford: OUP, 1942. ---. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon, 1936. Newman Brooks, Peter. Ed. Reformation Principle and Practice. London: Scholar Press, 1980. Seturaman, VS, et al. Ed. Practical Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 2000.
Paper III ENG 103 English Drama (5 Credits)
Unit I Background Origin and Development of British Drama (till the 17th Century); Tragedy; Comedy; Restoration Drama; Theatre of the Absurd
Unit II Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus William Shakespeare King Lear William Shakespeare The Tempest
Unit III Aphra Behn The Rover (Part I) Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest GB Shaw Saint Joan
Unit IV John Osborne Look Back in Anger Caryl Churchill Top Girls Tom Stoppard Indian Ink
Unit V One-act Plays JM Synge “Riders to the Sea” Harold Pinter “The Dumb Waiter” Alan Ayckbourn “Mother Figure”
Suggested Reading
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Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Drama. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. Bradbrook, MC. Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge: CUP, 1935. Bradley, AC. Shakesperean Tragedy. 1904. London: Penguin, 1991. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Ed. Renaissance Essays. Oxford: OUP, 1995. Dollimore, Jonathan and Alan Sinfield. Eds. Political Shakespeare. Manchester: MUP, 1985. Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Penguin, 1969. Nagarajan, S and S Viswanathan. Eds. Shakespeare in India. New Delhi: OUP, 1987. Nicoll, Allardyce. British Drama. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963. Pollard, AW. English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes. Oxford: Clarendon, 1954. Steiner, George. The Death of Tragedy. London: Faber and Faber, 1961. Styan, JL. The Elements of Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1969. ---. Modern Drama: Theory and Practice. 3 vols. Cambridge: CUP, 1981. Williams, Raymond. Drama: From Ibsen to Brecht. London: Chatto & Windus, 1965.
Paper IV ENG 104 A English Language and Phonetics (4 Credits)
Unit I Language as a System of Communication: Features of Human Communication, Differences between Animal and Human Communication. Verbal Communication: Formal vs Informal Communication, One way vs Two way Communication. Non-verbal Communication: Aspects relating to body language.
Unit II Phonetics: Articulatory Phonetics: Definition, Organs of Speech, Speech Mechanism (air-stream mechanism) Phonetic sounds vs Phonemic sounds; Classification of Phonemic Sounds IPA, Phonemic transcription (word and sentence levels) Description of Consonant sounds and Vowel Sounds
Unit III Word Accent/Stress: Syllable, Syllabification, Primary and Secondary Stress, Rules of Word Stress, Consonant clusters Aspects of Connected Speech: Weak forms and Elision Intonation: Tones of intonation and meaning making
Unit IV Levels of Language Description – Phonology: Definition, Scope and Other Aspects Morphology: Definition, Scope and Other Aspects Syntax: Definition, Scope and Other Aspects
Suggested Reading
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Bansal, R. K., & Harrison J.B. (2006). Spoken English. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. Balasubramanian, T. (2008). A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. Chennai: Macmillan. Hedwig, L. (1998). Body Language: A Guide for Professionals. New Delhi: Response Books. Hockett, C. (1960). A Course in Modern Linguistics. London: Macmillan. Jones, D. (1992). The Pronunciation of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. O’ Connor, J.D. (1997). Better English Pronunciation. New Delhi: UBS. Roach, P. (1990).English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sethi J., Sadanand. K., & Jindal, D. V. (2004). A Practical Course in English Pronunciation. New Delhi: PHI. Yule, G. (1995). The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Paper IV ENG 104 B Discourse Analysis (4 Credits)
Unit I Discourse analysis- Definition and Approaches, Theoretical traditions Characteristics of Discourse /Speech
Unit II Coherence: Definition and its Contributing Factors Cohesion: Definition and its Contributing factors, Speech Act theory
Unit III The Cooperative principle, The Politeness principle Conversation analysis –Implicatures Unit IV Genre analysis, Corpus-based approaches, Critical Discourse Analysis Suggested Reading Cook, G. (1989). Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fairclough,N. (2010). Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. London: Longman. Flowerdew, J. (2013). Discourse in English language education. London: Routledge. Grice, H.P. (1975). “Logic and conversation”. Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan, (Eds.) Syntax and Semantics, 3. New York, NY: Academic Press. 41-58. Halliday and Hasan. (1976). ‘Cohesion in English’. Longman: London. Jones, R. (2012). Discourse analysis: A resource book for students. Oxford: Blackwell. Levinson, S.C. (1993), Pragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Searle, J. R. (1969). Speech acts: An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Widdowson, H. G. (1995). “Discourse analysis: A critical view”. Language and Literature, 4 (3):157 172.
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Paper V ENG 105 A Modern Indian Literatures in Translation (4 Credits
Unit I Background Concept of Sahitya; Indian Concept of Translation; Tradition-Modernity; Progressive Writers Movement; Indian Dramatic Traditions; Dalit Aesthetics
Unit II Poetry Jibanananda Das “Banalata Sen”, “Naked Solitary Hand”, “This Earth” Makhdoom Mohiuddin “The Heart of Silence”, “Prison”, “Darkness” Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh “The Orang-Outang”, “The Void Within”, “A Single Shooting Star” Namdeo Dhasal “The Day She Was Gone”, “New Delhi, 1985”, “On the way to the dargah”
Unit III Fiction U R Ananthamurthy Samskara: A Rite For A Dead Man Mahasweta Devi Mother of 1084 Bama Karukku
Unit IV Drama Rabindranath Tagore Chandalika Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is in Session Girish Karnad Hayavadana
Suggested Reading
Devy, GN. After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism. Bombay: Orient Longman, 1992. ---. Ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002. Kapoor, Kapil. Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework. New Delhi: West Press, 1998. Limbale, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004. Mukherjee, Sujit. A Dictionary of Indian Literature. Vol I (Beginnings to 1850). Hyderabad: OL, 1998. ---. Towards a Literary History of India. Simla : Indian Institute of A Study, 1975. ---. Translation as Discovery. 1981. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994. ---. Translation as Recovery. New Delhi: Pencraft, 2004. Paniker, Ayyappa. Indian Narratology. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts, 2003. Radhakrishnan, S. The Hindu View of Life. 1926 Delhi: Harper Collins, 2014. Rege, Sharmila. Writing Caste,Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women’s Testimonios. New Delhi: Zuban, 2006. Satchidanandan, K, ed. Signatures: One Hundred Indian Poets. Delhi: NBT, 2003. 12
Vatsyayan, SH. A Sense of Time: An Exploration of Time in Theory, Experience and Art. Delhi: OUP, 1981.
Paper V ENG 105 B Cultural Studies (4 Credits)
Unit I Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Understanding Cultural Studies Modernity-Postmodernity, Hegemony-Resistance, Colonialism-Post-colonialism
Reading Baldwin E. Introducing Cultural Studies During, S. The Cultural Studies Reader Williams, Raymond. The Analysis of Culture: Culture and Society
Unit II Power-Agency, Identity-Subjectivity, Ideologies, Symbol-Semiotics, Gender-Feminism
Reading Hall, Stuart. What Is Culture? (Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies) During, S. Cultural Studies: An Introduction
Unit III Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Orientalism, Subaltern Globalization, Diaspora, Multiculturalism
Reading Hooks, Bell. A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change Tomlinson, John. Globalization and Culture Said, Edward. Orientalism Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Unit IV Popular Culture- Culture Industry- The Commodity Media, Television- Representation, Consumerism Science, Technology and Cultural Studies, Cyber-culture
Reading Ross, Andrew. The Challenge of Science Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture
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MA (Previous)
2017-2018 Semester II English Language Teaching: History, Approaches and Paper I ENG 201 Methods (5 Credits) Unit I a) History of English Language Teaching in India: Some Important Pre- Independence Landmarks: Macaulay’s Minute-a critique; Woods Despatch (1854); Indian Education Commission (1882); Indian Universities Commission (1902) b) Landmarks in English Education in India after Independence: Radhakrishnan Commission (University Education Commission, 1948); Kothari Commission - Three Language Formula (1964-66), Curriculum Development Commission, Acharya Ramamurti Commission (1990); The National Knowledge Commission Report (2006- 10) c) Teaching English as a second language: Role of English in India; Objectives of Teaching English as a Second Language in India
Unit II a) Behaviourism and its Implications for ELT: Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, Thorndike’s Connectionism, Skinner’s Operant conditioning b) Cognitivism and its Implications for ELT: Gestalt Theory; Chomsky’s Cognitive Theory-Competence vs Performance; Dell Hymes’ Communicative Competence c) Language Acquisition Process: Differences between First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning
Unit III a) Approaches and Methods: Grammar Translation method, Direct Method, Reading Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Bilingual Method, Eclectic Method b) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Task Based Learning and Teaching c) Humanistic Approaches: Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia
Unit IV a) Teaching LSRW and their Sub-skills b) Curriculum and Syllabus: Components, Needs Analysis, Goals and Objectives; Course Evaluation c) Types of Syllabi: Structural Syllabus, Notional - Functional Syllabus, Task-based Syllabus
Unit V a) Language Testing: Definition and Types of Language Testing b) Characteristic Features of an Effective Test: Validity, Reliability, Feasibility 14
c) Testing Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar
Suggested Reading
Aggarwal, J.C. (2010). Landmarks in the history of modern Indian education. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. Agnihotri.R.K., & Khanna, A.L. (1995). English language teaching in India: Issues and innovations. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Allen, H. B., & Campbell. (1972). Teaching English as a second language. New Delhi: McGraw-Hill. Ghosh, R. N. (1977). Introduction to English language teaching: Methods at the college level (Vol.3).Hyderabad: CIEFL. Heaton, J. B. (1975). Writing English language tests. London: Longman. Hughes, A. (2003). Testing for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Krishnaswamy, N. (2005). Teaching English: Approaches, methods and techniques. India: Macmillan. Krishnaswamy, N., & Lalita Krishna Swamy. (2006). The story of English in India. New Delhi:Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd. Krishnaswamy, N., & Sriraman, T. (2006). English teaching in India. Madras: T.R. Publications.
MA (Previous) Semester II
English Paper II ENG 202 Prose (5 Credits)
Unit I Background Origin and Development of the English Essay; Utopia; Translation of the Bible; Allegory; Satire
Unit II Philip Sidney An Apologie for Poetrie Francis Bacon “Of Studies”, “Of Truth”, “Of Revenge” The Pilgrim’s Progress (from “As I walked through John Bunyan the wilderness of this world …” till the paragraph ending with the line “The name of the one was Simple, another Sloth, and the third Presumption.”) Jonathan Unit III Swift “The Battle of the Books” “Sir Roger in Church”, “The Aims of the Joseph Addison Spectator” Preface to Shakespeare (Up to the paragraph Samuel Johnson beginning “So careless was this great poet…”) 15
Unit IV Charles Lamb “Dream Children”, “Old China” “The Indian Jugglers”, “On People with One William Hazlitt Idea” John Ruskin Unto This Last (Section I)
Unit V Bertrand Russell “The Ethics of War”, “Education and Discipline” Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own George Orwell “Politics and the English Language”, “Reflections on Gandhi”
Suggested Reading
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Prose. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Ed. Bacon’s Essays: A Selection. New Delhi: OUP, 1977. Daniel, David. The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. Yale: Yale University Press, 2003. Gross, John. Ed. The New Oxford Book of English Prose. Oxford: OUP, 2000. Read, Herbert. English Prose Style. 1928. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. Robinson, Ian. The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prose Rhythm. London: Macmillan, 1912. Shklovsky, Victor. Theory of Prose. London: Dalkey Archive Press, 1991.
Paper III ENG 203 English Fiction (5 Credits)
Unit I Background The Rise of Novel; The Gothic Novel; Realism-Naturalism; Bildungsroman; Stream of Consciousness; Magic Realism
Unit II Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jane Austen Emma Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Unit III Charles Dickens Hard Times Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Unit IV DH Lawrence Sons and Lovers William Golding Lord of the Flies Zadie Smith White Teeth
Unit V Short Stories 16
Rudyard Kipling “Lispeth”, “Thrown Away” HG Wells “The New Accelerator”, “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” Roald Dahl “The Umbrella Man”, “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Suggested Reading
Auerbach, Eric. Mimesis: The Representations of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton: Priceton UP, 2003. Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of the Novel. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Forster, EM. Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927. Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1992. Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1921. Lukacs, Georg. The Theory of the Novel. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. Scholes, Robert. Elements of Fiction. Oxford, OUP, 1968. Schorer, Mark. “Technique as Discovery”. The Hudson Review. 1. 1 (1948): 67-87. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. London: Peregrine, 1970.
Paper IV ENG 204 A Women’s Writing (4 Credits)
Unit I Background Sex and Gender; Women’s Liberation Movement; Feminisms; Women and the Canon; Gyno-criticism
Unit II Poetry Aemilia Lanyer “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” Sylvia Plath “Lady Lazarus”, “The Applicant”, “Daddy” Grace Nichols “Waterpot”, “A Praise Song for Mother”, “The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping” Luci Tapahonso “Blue Horses Rush In”, “Leda and the Cowboy”, “Raisin Eyes”
Unit III Fiction Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Chimamanda Adichie Americanah
Unit IV Prose Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Women (Introduction and Chapter 2) Adrienne Rich “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” Suniti Namjoshi From Feminist Fables 17
1. From the Panchatantra 2. The Little Princess 3. The Gods 4. Perseus and Andomeda 5. Case History 6. The Runner
Suggested Reading
Beauvoir, Simone De. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 1974. Christian, Barbara. Black Feminist Criticism. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985. Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Dell, 1983. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. Elizabeth Kowalski Wallace, ed. Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. New York: Garland, 1997. Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage, 2011. Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: OUP, 1986. Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. London: Duke University Press, 2003. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing. Rev. and expanded ed. London: Virago, 1999 Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. London: Vintage, 1990. Web Adichie, Chimamanda. “We should all be Feminists”. TEDx. ---. “The Danger of a Single Story”. TED. Feminism and Women’s Studies.
Paper IV ENG 204 B Gender Studies (4 Credits)
Unit I Background Femininity-Masculinity; Knowledge, Power, and Gender; Body Theory; Queer Theory, Queer Theory
Unit II Poetry Agha Shahid Ali Leaving your City Etal Adnan Five Senses for One Death Maya Angelou Phenomenal Women Chris Mansell The Bee Keeper
Unit III Fiction Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask Patrick White Flaws in the Glass 18
Gloria Naylor Mama Day ShyamSelvadurai Funny Boy
Unit IV Prose Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality (Part One: “We ‘Other Victorians’”) The Epistemology of the Closet (Chapter Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1) Jose Esteban Muñoz Disidentification (“Introduction”) Roderick Ferguson Aberrations in Black (“Introduction”)
Suggested Reading
Beam, Joseph. Ed. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Boston: Alyson Books, 1986. Print. Birkby, Phyllis. Ed. Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian/Feminist Anthology. New Jersey: Times Change Press, 1973. Browning, Frank. The Culture of Desire. New York: Crown Publishers, 1993. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. United States: Routledge, 1990. Dessaix, Robert. Ed. Australian Gay & Lesbian Writing: An Anthology. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1993. Hennessy, Rosemary. Profit and Pleasure. New York: Routledge, 1997. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. United States: Knopf, 1976. Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007. Ratti, Rakesh. Ed. The Lotus of Another Colour: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience. Boston: Alyson Publication, 1993. Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal. United States: The Free Press, 1999.
Paper V ENG 205 A Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Theory (4 Credits)
Unit I Background New Criticism; New Historicism; Structuralism and Poststructuralism; Reader Response Theories; Psychoanalytical Criticism
Unit II Cleanth Brooks “The Language of Paradox” (from The Well-Wrought Urn) Northrop Fry “Archetypes of Literature” (from Fables of Identity) Mikhail Bakhtin “Discourse in the Novel” (from The Dialogic Imagination)
Unit III Michel Foucault “The Unities of Discourse” (from The Archaeology of Knowledge) Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author” (from Image-Music-Text) “Literature” (from Marxism and Raymond Williams Literature) 19
Unit IV Edward Said “Introduction” (from Orientalism) Elaine Showalter “Feminist Criticism in Wilderness” (from The New Feminist Criticism) Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Editor’s Introduction: Writing ‘Race’ and the Difference It Makes” (Sec 1-5)
Suggested Reading
Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1993. Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Verso, 1986. Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London: Methuen, 1980. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983. Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in This Class? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences. New York: Pantheon, 1970. Jameson, Fredric. Marxism and Form. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. Leitch, Vincent B, ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, eds. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. London: Pearson, 2000. Richards, IA. Principles of Literary Criticism. London: Routledge, 2003. Said, Edward. The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. Seldan, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Longman, 2005. Sturrock, John. Structuralism and Since: from Levi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford: OUP, 1979. Warren, Austen and Rene Wellek. Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1956. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. ---, and Philip Rice, eds. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold, 2001.
Paper V ENG 205 B Translation Studies (4 Credits)
Unit I What is Translation? · Definition · History · Source language and target language · Recreation/Transcreation/ Interpretation · Purpose and importance of translation
Unit II Specialized types of translation, Administrative translation 20
Commercial Translation, General Translation, Legal translation Literary translation
Unit III Tools of Translation Cognitive, Command over source and target language Language and society Non- Cognitive, Dictionaries/ encyclopedia/ indices/ machine, etc
Unit IV Problems of Translation General Problems: Incompetence, Ambiguity, Cultural gap, Structural difference, Language Specific problems: Idioms, Contextual meaning
MA (Final) (For 2016-2017 Batch) Semester III English Language Teaching: Classroom Techniques Paper I ENG 301 and Practical English (5 Credits)
Unit I d) Error Analysis Theory; Identifying and dealing with Common Learner Errors; Remedial Teaching e) Techniques of Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary f) Techniques of Teaching Prose, Poetry and Drama;
Unit II d) Classroom Techniques: Lecture Method-Advantages and Disadvantages e) Learner Centred Approach: Classroom Discussion, Pair Work, Group Work, Role Play f) Team Teaching and Teaching Large Classes
Unit III d) Teaching Aids: Use of the Blackboard, Flip Charts, Realia e) Audio-visual Aids: OHP, PPT f) Using technology: Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL), Importance of English Language Laboratory
Unit IV d) Teaching of Literature: Teaching Language through Literature: Important Techniques e) Stylistic Approach to the Teaching of Literature: Norm, Deviation and Foregrounding f) Designing language tasks from literary texts.
Unit V d) Practical English I: Essentials of Presentation Skills, Elocution, Debate,
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Compeering, Interviews, Group Discussions e) Practical English II: Corporate/business communication: Inter Office Memos (IOMs), Notices, Agenda and Minutes of Meeting f) Practical English III: Business Letters: Letter of enquiry, Letter of complaint, Letter of reply.
Suggested Reading
Broughton, G. (1974). Success with English: The Penguin course. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Indira, CT. (1995). Resource book for teachers of English: Teaching poetry at the advanced level. Madras: T.R. Publications.
Jay, A., & Jay, R. (1999). Effective presentation: How to be a top-class presenter. New Delhi: Universities Press (India) Limited. Krishnaswamy, N. (2005). Teaching English: Approaches, methods and techniques. India: Macmillan. Monippally, M.M. (2001). Business communication strategies. New Delhi: TataMc Graw-Hill. Raman, M.& Sharma, S. (2012). Technical communication: Principles and practice. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Raman, M., & Singh, P. (2012). Business communication. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (1986). Approaches and methods in language teaching: A description and analysis. Cambridge: CUP.
Rizvi, A. M. (2005). Effective technical communication. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. Tickoo, M. L. (2003). Teaching and learning English: A source book for teachers and teacher trainers. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. Ur, Penny. (2002). A course in language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Widdowson, H. G. (1975). Stylistics and the teaching of literature. London: Pearson Education.
Paper II ENG 302 American Literature—I (5 Credits)
Unit I Background Antebellum and Postbellum America; Puritanism; Transcendentalism; The American Romantics; American Frontier
Unit II Poetry William Cullen Bryant “A Forest Hymn”, “The Yellow Violet”, “America” Edgar Allen Poe “Raven”, “Dream Land” “Because I could not stop for death”, “I Emily Dickinson taste a 22
liquor never brewed”, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” Unit III Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville Billy Bud The Adventures of Huckleberry Mark Twain Finn
Unit IV Drama Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the Elms Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie Arthur Miller All My Sons
Unit V Prose and Short Fiction Ralph Waldo Emerson “The American Scholar” Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience” William Faulkner “Wealthy Jew”
Suggested Reading
Abbotson, Susan C. W. “A Contextual Study of the Causes of Paternal Conflict Arthur Miller’s All My Sons.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. 11. 2 (2005): 29-44. Downing, Pat Bromilow, et al. “Global O’Neill: A Portfolio of Photographs from the Baxter Theatre Centre Production of Desire under the Elms.” Eugene O'Neill Review 36.1(2015): 73-79. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The American Scholar” An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 Mr. President and Gentlemen.”The American Scholar 1. 1 (1932): 4. Herr, William A. “Thoreau: A Civil Disobedient?” Ethics 85. 1 (1974): 87-91. Hurley Harold, C. “’But Bryant? What of Bryant in Bryan?’: The Religious Implications of the Allusion to ‘A Forest Hymn’ in The Sun Also Rises.” The Hemingway Review 20.2 (2001): 76-89. Person Jr. Leland S. “Poe’s Composition of Philosophy: Reading and Writing ‘The Raven’.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 46.3 (1990): 1-15. Rosenthal, Bianca. “Paul Celan’s Translation of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 6.2 (1997): 133. Wenke, John. “Complicating Vere: Melville's Practice of Revision in Billy Budd.” Leviathan 1.1. (1999): 83-88. Zwart, Jane. “Initial Misgivings: Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter and the Forgery of American Origin.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 59.3 (2013): 411-438.
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Paper III ENG 303 Indian Writing in English—I (5 Credits)
Unit I Background 19 Century Reform Movements in India; The Indian National Movement; Rise of the Indian Novel; Caste-Class; The New Indian Woman
Unit II Poetry Henry Derozio “The Harp of India”, “To My Native Land” “Sita”, “Our Casuarina Tree”, “My Toru Dutt Vocation” Sri Aurobindo “Silence is all”, “Is this the end?”, “The Dual Being” Sarojini Naidu “The Pardah Nashin”, “Ghanashyam”, “The Gift of India” Unit III Fiction Bankimchandra Chatterjee Rajmohan’s Wife Krupabai Satthianadhan Kamala: a Story of Hindu Life Zeenuth Futehally Zohra
Unit IV Fiction Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable Raja Rao Kanthapura R K Narayan The Man-Eater of Malgudi
Unit V Prose B R Ambedkar “The Annihilation of Caste” “The Quest” (Chapter 3; The Discovery of Jawaharlal Nehru India) “The Ladies Have Feelings, So...Shall We Arundhati Roy Leave It To The Experts?”
Suggested Reading
Clark, TW, ed. The Novel in India: Its Birth and Development. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1970. Devy, GN. In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature. 1993. Madras: Macmillan, 1994. Gandhi, MK. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule. 1938. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 2003.
Harrex, SC. The Fire and the Offering: The English-Language Novel of India 1935- 1970. 2 vols. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1977-78. 24
Iyengar, Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English. 1962. New Delhi: Sterling, 1995. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English. 1971. New Delhi: Pencraft, 2005. ---. Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India. Delhi: OUP, 1985. Mund, Subhendu. The Indian Novel in English: Its Birth and Development. Bhubaneswar: Prachi Prakashan, 1997. Naik, MK. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1982. Nair, Ramachandran, KR. Three Indo-Anglian Poets: Henry Derozio, Toru Dutt, and Sarojini Naidu. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1987. Narasimhaiah, CD. The Swan and the Eagle: Essays on Indian English Literature. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advance Studies, 1969. ---. Makers of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Pencraft, 2000. Ramamurti, KS. Rise of the Indian Novel in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1987. Srinivas, MN. Caste in Modern India. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1962. Williams, HM. Indo-Anglian Literature, 1800-1970: A Survey. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1976.
(4 Paper IV ENG 304 A Postcolonial Literatures Credits)
Unit I Background Colonialism-Post-colonialism; Decolonization-Neocolonialism; Mimicry- Hybridity; Universalism-Euro-centrism; Myth-History
Unit II Poetry “Eve to Her Daughters”, Judith Wright “Bullocky”, “Request to a Year” “Marvel’s Garden”, “Breaking”, “Ah Ghalib Phyllis Webb …” Kamau Brathwaite “Calypso”, “Bread”, “Limbo” “Overture”, “Elegy For Alto”, “Banks of Christopher Okigbo Reed”
Unit III Fiction Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart VS Naipaul The Mimic Men Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman
Unit IV Drama Wole Soyinka Kongi’s Harvest
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Derek Walcott Dream on Monkey Mountain Drew Hayden Taylor alterNatives
Suggested Reading
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, eds. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989. ---. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998. Bhabha, Homi K, ed. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990. Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors. Oxford: OUP, 2005. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. 1963. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 2005. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New Delhi: OUP, 1998. Gilbert, Helen, and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. London: Routledge, 1996. King, Bruce. Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama Since 1960. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. ---. New National and Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996. Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. The New Critical Idiom Series. London: Routledge, 1998. Mongia, Padmini. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 1996. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: J. Currey, 1986. Rutherford, Anna, Holst Petersen, and H. Maes Jelinek, eds. From Commonwealth to Post-colonial. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992. Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1988. 271-313. Trivedi, Harish and Meenakshi Mukherjee. Interrogating Post-Colonialism: Theory, Text and Context. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1996. Young, Robert JC. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2003.
ENG 304 B Modern European Classics in Translation (4 Paper IV Credits)
Unit I Background The Enlightenment; Epic Theater; Avant-garde; Realism-Naturalism; Holocaust Experience
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“To the Reader”,” Even She Who Was Charles Baudelaire Called Beatrice” (from The Flowers of Evil) “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez”, Federico García Lorca “Crucifixion” Paul Celan “Fugue of Death”, “ Tenebrae” “Nunc Dimittis”, “Odysseus to Joseph Brodsky Telemachus”
Unit III Drama Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage Six Characters in Search of an Luigi Pirandello Author
Unit IV Fiction Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground Albert Camus The Stranger Thomas Mann Death in Venice
Suggested Reading
Adorno, Theodor. Prisms. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983. Alvarez, A. Ed. Paul Celan: Selected Poems. Middlesex: Penguin, 1972. Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Benjamin, Walter. The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Baudelaire. Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 2001. Eliot, T.S. What is a Classic? London: Faber, 1945. Jones, Malcom V. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Kermode, Frank. The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change. London: Faber, 1983. Steiner, George. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? London: Faber, 2010. Styan J L. Modern Drama: Theory and Practice. 3vols.Cambridge: Cambridge UP,1981. Willet, John. Ed. Brecht on Theatre. London: Methuen, 1964.
Literature and Paper V ENG 305 (A) Film (Inter-disciplinary) (4 Credits)
Unit I Background Narrative Elements (Plot, Character, Point of View, Setting); Mise-en-scene; Cinematography; Montage, Film Genres 27
Unit II Essays Chidananda Das Gupta “Indian Cinema Today” Francesco Casetti “Adaptation and Mis-adaptations: Film, Literature, and Social Discourses” (from A Companion to Literature and Film) “Film Language” (from The Subject of Gaston Roberge Cinema)
Unit III Drama and Film William Shakespeare Macbeth Orson Welles Macbeth Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House Patrick Garland A Doll’s House
Unit IV Fiction and Film E M Forster A Passage to India David Lean A Passage to India Daphne du Maurier “The Birds” Alfred Hitchcock The Birds
Suggested Reading
Abrams, M H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 10th Edn. New Delhi: Cengage Learning, 2011. Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema? Vols 1 & 2. Berkley: Univ of California Press, 1967. Beja, Morris. Film and Literature: An Introduction. New York: Longman, 1979. Bluestone, George. Novels into Film. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Benyahia, Sarah Casey and John White. Film Studies: The Essential Introduction. London: Routledge, 2006. Boyum, Joy Gould. Double Exposure: Fiction into Film. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1989. Cahir, Linda Constanzo. Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches. London: Macfarland, 2006. Cartmell, Deborah, ed. A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. Cartmell, Deborah and Imelda Whelehan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Das Gupta, Chidananda. Talking About Films. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1981. Desmond, John and Peter Hawkes. Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature. Boston: McGraw, 2006. Elliott, Kamilla. Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate. Cambridge: CUP, 2003. 28
Gaston, Roberge. The Subject of Cinema. Calcutta: Seagull, 1985. McFarlane, Brian. Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish and Soyoung Kim. Cinema, Culture Industry and Political Societies. London: Routledge, 2003. Ray, Satyajit. Our Films and Their Films. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1976. Sikov, Ed., ed. Film Studies: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Stam, Robert and Alessandra Raengo, eds. A Companion to Literature and Film. London: Blackwell, 2006. Vaidyanathan, T G. Hours in the Dark: Essays on Cinema. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1999.
Paper ENG 305: V (B) Computer Assisted Language Learning (4 Credits)
Unit I: Multimedia and Internet, Virtual Learning Environment, Speech Synthesis and Recognition, Text to Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Web-based Distance Learning.
Unit II: Behavioristic CALL, Structural CALL, Communicative CALL, Integrative CALL, Restricted CALL, Open CALL, Integrated CALL
Unit III: Computational Linguistics, Corpora and Concordancers, Interactive Whiteboards, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL).
Unit IV: Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), Blended Learning. Use of Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, Podcasting, Web 2.0 Applications, Software Design and Pedagogy, Designing and Creating CALL Software
Books, Web Sources: Levy M. (1997) CALL: Context and Conceptualisation, Oxford: OUP. Lamy M.-N. & Hampel R. (2007) Online communication in language learning and teaching, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Davies G. & Higgins J. (1982) Computers, language and language learning, London: CILT. Bush M. & Terry R. (1997) (eds.) Technology-enhanced language learning, Lincolnwood, Illinois: National Textbook Company. Pegrum M. (2009) From blogs to bombs: The future of digital technologies in education, Perth: University of Western Australia Press. Levy, M.; Hubbard, P. (2005). "Why call CALL "CALL"?". Computer Assisted Language Learning. 18 (3): 143–149. doi:10.1080/09588220500208884. Davies G. (2005) Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? [Online]: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UCALL_Keynote.htm Hubbard P. (2009) (ed.) Computer-assisted language learning, Volumes I-IV, 29
Routledge: London and New York: http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/callcc/ Davies G. & Higgins J. (1985) Using computers in language learning: a teacher's guide, London: CILT. Jones C. & Fortescue S. (1987) Using computers in the language classroom, Harlow: Longman. Hardisty D. & Windeatt S. (1989) CALL, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Thomas M. (2008) Handbook of research on Web 2.0 and second language learning, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global. Richardson W. (2006) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and the Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press. Sinclair J. (ed.) (2004) How to use corpora in language teaching, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Language Lab: http://www.languagelab.com/en/ Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research (NIFLAR): http://niflar.ning.com Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline (AVALON): http://avalon-project.ning.com/ Leakey J. (2011) Evaluating Computer Assisted Language Learning: an integrated approach to effectiveness research in CALL, Bern: Peter Lang. Chapelle, C.A., & Sauro, S. (Eds.). (2017).The handbook of technology and second language teaching and learning. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Son, J.-B. (2018). Teacher development in technology-enhanced language teaching. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
MA (Final) Semester IV
Paper I ENG 401 English Language Teaching: Major Developments in L1 and L2 (5 credits) Unit I g) The Human Brain and its Functions - Language Acquisition and Learning h) First Language Acquisition - Stages of Language Development in a Child i) Learning Disabilities with special focus on Aphasia
Unit II g) Major Findings in L2 Research h) Models of Second Language Acquisition I: The Linguistic Process Focus: The Monitor Model, The Conscious Reinforcement Model, The Strategy Model i) Models of Second Language Acquisition II: The Social Process Focus: The Social Psychological Model, The Acculturation Model, The Social Context Model, The Intergroup Model
Unit III g) Language Learning Strategies (LLS) : Definition, Early Research on LLS, The Good Language Learner Research
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h) Modern Research on LLS: Rebecca Oxford’s Classification of LLS:Direct Strategies: Memory Strategies, Cognitive Strategies, Compensation Strategies; Indirect Strategies: Meta-cognitive Strategies, Affective Strategies, Social Strategies i) Mind Mapping, Learner Autonomy, Learning Styles
Unit IV g) Socio-Linguistics: Language, Society and Culture: Their Relationship h) World Englishes: Braj Kachru and Tom McArthur models; New Englishes: Current trends in the spread of English i) Beyond Methods: Kumaravadivelu’s Concept of Postmethod Pedagogy, Macrostrategic Framework
Unit V g) Principles of Designing ESP courses: English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Science and Technology (EST), English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) h) Teaching and testing Group Discussion (GD) and Interviews i) Steps to design a Standard test, Designing objective type tests, Study of the Samples of TOEFL and IELTS, Competitive Tests at State and National Levels
Suggested Reading
Allen, H.B., & Campbell, R.N. (eds). (1972). Teaching English as a second language. Bombay-New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd. Buzan, T & Buzan, B. (1996). The mind map book: How to use radiant thinking to maximize your brain’s untapped potential. USA: Penguin. Davies, A. (1990). Principles of language testing. Oxford: Blackwell. Gardner, R.C. (1985). Social psychology and second language learning. USA: Edward Arnold. Hutchinson, T., & Waters, A. (1987). English for specific purposes: A learning centred approach. Cambridge: CUP. Jones, D. (1992). The pronunciation of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kachru, B. B. (1986). The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Kumaravadivelu, B. (2003). Beyond methods: Macrostrategies for language teaching. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. Mesthrie, R., & Rakesh, M.B. (2008). World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties. Cambridge: CUP. Nagarajan, G. (1996). English language teaching: Approaches, methods, and techniques. Hyderabad: Orient Long.
Oxford, R.L. (1990). Language learning strategies: What every teacher should 31
know. Boston: Heinle & Heinle. Reid, J. (1995). Learning styles in the ESL/EFL classroom. Boston: Heinle & Heinle. Scharle, A., & Anita S. (2000). Learner autonomy: A guide to developing learner responsibility. Cambridge: CUP.
Paper II ENG 402 American Literature—II (5 Credits)
Unit I Background American Dream; Race; Ethnicity; Multiculturalism; Realism
Unit II Poetry Walt Whitman “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” Robert Frost “Home Burial”, “Birches”, “After Apple Picking” “Emperor of Ice-cream”, “Showman”, “Thirteen Wallace Stevens Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Unit III Fiction Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Saul Bellow Seize the Day
Unit IV Drama Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? August Wilson The Piano Lesson
Unit V Prose and Short Fiction Alice Walker “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens” Bernard Malamud “The Magic Barrel” Issac Asimov “Bicentennial Man”
Suggested Reading
Brown, Lloyd W. “Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun.” Journal of Black Studies. 4. 3 (Mar. 1974): 237-247. Butler, Robert. “The Loeb and Leopold Case: A Neglected Source for Richard Wright’s Native Son.” African American Review 39. 4 (2005): 555-567. Carreiro, Amy E. “Ghosts of the Harlem Renaissance: “Negrotarians” in Richard Wright’s Native Son.” The Journal of Negro History 84.3 (1999): 247–259. Carrier, Warren. “Commonplace Costumes and Essential Gaudiness: Wallace Stevens’ ‘Emperor of Ice-Cream’.”College Literature 1. 3 (1974): 230-235. Deb, Joyshree. “Materialism Precedes Murder: Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day.” Journal of Humanities and Social Science 19.1 (2014): 59-64. French, William C. “Character and Cruelty In Huckleberry Finn: Why The Ending Works 32
Soundings.” An Interdisciplinary Journal 81. 1/2 (1998): 157-179. Longmire, Samuel E. “Hemingway’s Praise of Dick Sisler in The Old Man and the Sea.”American Literature 42.1 (1970): 96-98. Mansell, Darrell. “The Old Man and the Sea and the Computer.” Computers and the Humanities 8. 4 (1974): 195-206. McLennan, Dean Scotty. “Sowing Seeds in Bellow’s Seize The Day: A Sermon.”Stanford Memorial Church July 17, 2011. Phelan, James. “Rhetorical Literary Ethics and Lyric Narrative: Robert Frost’s ‘Home Burial’.” Poetics Today 25. 4 (2004): 627-651. Ray, Laura Krugman. “Dickens and ‘The Magic Barrel’.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 4. 1 (1978): 35-40.
Robertson, David. “Fish and The Book off Tobit in Malamud’s ‘The Magic Barrel’” Studies in American Jewish Literature 28 (2009): 73-81. Spitzer, Leo. “Explication de Texte Applied to Walt Whitman’s Poem ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’.” ELH 16. 3 (1949): 229-249. Sylvester, Bickford. “Hemingway’s Extended Vision: The Old Man and the Sea.” PMLA 81. 1 (1966): 130-138. Walcutt, Charles C. “Whitman's ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’”. College English 10.5 (1949): 277–279.
Paper III ENG 403 Indian Writing in English—II (5 Credits)
Unit I Background Partition Literature; Nation-Nationalism; Counter Discourse; Subalternity; Identity Movements
Unit II Poetry Nissim Ezekiel “Enterprise”, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”, “Philosophy” A K Ramanujan “Love Poem for a Wife-1”, “Obituary”, “Small-scale Reflections on a Great House” Kamala Das “An Introduction”, “The Old Playhouse”, “Words” Arun Kolatkar “Scratch”, “A Low Temple”, “An Old Woman”
Unit III Fiction Anita Desai Voices in the City Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Shashi Deshpande The Binding Vine
Unit IV Short Stories Bharti Mukherjee “Management of Grief” (from The Middleman and Other Stories) 33
Rohinton Mistry “Swimming Lessons” (from Tales from Firozsha Baag) Jhumpa Lahiri “Interpreter of Maladies”(from Interpreter of Maladies)
Unit V Drama Asif Currimbhoy Goa Mahesh Dattani “Final Solutions” Manjula Padmanabhan Harvest
Suggested Reading
Gopal, Priyamvada. The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration. New Delhi: OUP, 2009. Guha, Sumit. Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Guru, Gopal and Sundar Sarukkai.The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2012. Joshi, Priya. In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. 2002.Delhi: OUP, 2003. Khair, Tabish. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. New Delhi: OUP, 2001. King, Bruce. Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moraes. New Delhi: OUP, 1991. ---. Modern Indian Poetry in English. Rev ed. New Delhi: OUP, 2001. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. Delhi: Perma Black, 2003. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: OUP, 2000. Naik, MK and Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, eds. Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. Delhi: OUP, 1977. Paranjape, Makarand. In-Diaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts. New Delhi: Indialog, 2001. Prasad, GJV. Continuities in Indian English Poetry: Nation, Language, Form. New Delhi: Pencraft, 1999. Omvedt , Gail. Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond. New Delhi: Orient Black, 2011.
Paper IV ENG 404 (A) Academic Writing and Research Methodology (4 Credits)
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Factors Influencing Effective Writing: Mechanics of Writing, Purpose of writing, Audience/reader, Organisation- Cohesion and Coherence Features of Academic Writing: Introduction, Complexity, Formality, Precision, Objectivity, Explicitness, Accuracy and Appropriacy, Relevance, Hedging Academic Writing Forms: Paragraph Development, Précis Writing, Building Argument, Making Counter Argument, Managing tone and tenor
Unit II Study Skills and Academic Skills: Note Taking, Note Making, Information Transfer and Reference Skills, Paraphrasing (Change of parts of speech, word order, synonyms, using passive form), Summarizing (Steps in summarising) Essay and Report Writing: Descriptive Writing, Narrative Writing; General Reports, Feasibility reports, Progress reports, Evaluation reports, Writing for Media Writing Book Reviews and Film Reviews
Unit III Criteria of Good Research; Avoiding Plagiarism Types of Research: Primary and Secondary Research; Research Design: Statement of the Problem, Survey of relevant literature, Making hypotheses, developing objectives; Research Tools Analysis and Data Interpretation (Collecting the data, analysing and interpreting the data, testing the hypotheses)
Unit IV Preparing an outline for Research Articles and Thesis Documentation Format: APA style Documentation Format: MLA style
Suggested Reading
Gillett, A., Hammond, A., & Martala, M. (2009). Inside track: Successful academic writing. Essex: Pearson Education Limited. Griffin, G. (2006). Research methods for English studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Gupta, R. (2010). A course in academic writing. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. Krishnaswamy, N. (1974). Modern English: A Book of grammar, usage, & composition. Hyderabad: Macmillan India Limited Leki, I. (1998). Academic writing: Exploring processes and strategies. NY: CUP. The MLA handbook for writers of research papers (7thed.). New York, NY: Modern Language Association. Monippally, M.M., & Pawar, B.S. (2010). Academic writing: A guide for management students and researchers. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Monippally, M.M. (2001). Business communication strategies. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. Murray & Hughes, G. (2008). Writing up your university assignments and research projects: A practical handbook. New York: Open University Press.
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Narayanaswami, V.R. (1979). Strengthen your writing. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. Rossiter, J. (2007). The APA pocket handbook: Rules for format & documentation. Augusta GA: DwPublishing Company. Sealy, J. (2013). Writing for media. In Guide to effective writing and speaking. (pp.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sharma, R.C,& Krishnamohan.(2011). Business correspondence and report writing. New Delhi: TataMcgrawHill. Sinha, M.P. (2007). Research methods in English. New Delhi: Atlanta Publishers. Swales, J. M., &Feak, C. B. (1994). Academic writing for graduate students: A course for non-native speakers of English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. B. (2000). English in today's research world: A writing guide. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Wallace. (2013). Study skills in English: Student book. Cambrdige:Cambridge University Press. Wallwork. (2013). English for academic research: Writing exercises. New York, NY: Springer. Weissberg, R., & Buker, S. (1990). Writing up research: Experimental research report writing for students of English. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Yakhontova, T. (2003). English academic writing for students and researchers.
Paper IV ENG 404 (B) Fourth World Literatures
Unit I Laxman Mane Upara: An Outsider P Sivakami The Grip of Change
Unit II N Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony
Unit III Maria Campbell Half Breed Thomas King Green Grass, Running Water
Unit IV Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Selected poems from We are Going and My People Kim Scott Benang
Suggested Reading
Episkenew, Jo-Ann. Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing. Univ. of Manitoba Press, 2009. Limbale, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004. Shoemaker, Adam. Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988. Canberra: ANU E, 2004. Wheeler, Belinda, ed. A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. New York: Camden House, 2013.
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Paper 5 ENG 405 (A) South Asian Literature (4 Credits)
Unit I Background South Asia—History and Geography; South Asian Diaspora; Migration and Exile; South Asia and Globalization; Ethnicity-Gender
Unit II Poetry Lakshmi Prasad Devkota “Lunatic” Jean Arasanaygam “Apocalypse”, “Durga Pooja”, “Nallur” Kaiser Haq “As Usual”, “Liking It”, “Poor Man Eating” Imtiaz Dharker “Purdah I”, “The right word”, “A century later”
Unit III Fiction Bapsi Sidhwa Ice Candy Man Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
Unit IV Prose Hanif Kureishi “Something Given: Reflections on Writing” Romesh Gunesekera “A long, slow descent into hell” Manjushree Thapa “Educating the Influential Foreigner”, “The Difficulty of Being Nepali” (from The Lives We Have Lost)
Suggested Reading
Ali, N, VS Kalra, and S Sayyid, eds. A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London: Hurst and Co., 2006. Ballard, Roger. Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Presence in Britain. London: Hurst and Co., 1994. Bates, Crispin. Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600. New York: Routledge, 2007. Brass, Paul R., and Achin Vanaik. Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002. Breckenridge, Carol A., and Peter van der Veer, eds. Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Brown, Judith M. Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. Engineer, Asghar Ali. Ethnic Conflict in South Asia. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1987. Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. Images of the Raj: South Asia in the Literature of Empire. London: Macmillan, 1988. 37
Ludden, David. Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalization of South Asia. London: Anthem Press, 2002. Maloney, Clarence. Peoples of South Asia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Nasta, Susheila. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain. London: Palgrave, 2001. Pollock, Sheldon, ed. Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Berkeley: Univ of California,2003. Raj, Kapil. Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Sanga , Jaina C. South Asian Literature in English: An Encyclopedia. London: Raintree, 2004. Sareen, S. K., Kapil Kapoor, eds. South Asian Love Poetry. New Delhi. Affiliated East- West Press. 1994.
Seminars: 2 Hours per week (2 credits)
Foundation Course (P.G.)
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
(Common Paper for all First Semester P.G. Courses w.e.f. Academic Year 2016-17) Under Choice Based Credit System, Number of Hours: 30, Credits: 02)
The main objective of the paper is to improve the oral and written communication skills of post-graduate students of different faculties to make them employable.
Unit 1: a) Verbal Communication (Objectives, Types, Patterns, Barriers); Non-Verbal Communication (Body Language) b) Presentation Skills (Power Point Presentation (PPP), Formats, Designing); Tele Conferencing; Debates and Group Discussions; Public Speaking; Interviews; Role Plays (Formal and Informal); Mobile (Telephone) Etiquette
Unit 2: a) Writing Skills; Principles of Good Writing; Paragraph Writing (Topic Sentence, Order, Coherence and Unity); Essay Writing (Five Types: Descriptive, Narrative, Expository, Critical, Contemporary) b) Corporate Writing: Resume Writing; Letter Writing (Structure, Styles, Applications, E-mails); Memoranda, Notices, Agenda, Minutes, Instructions, Proposals); Report Writing; Thesis Writing (Structure and Formats)
References:
Analysing Talk, David Lnagford-Macmillan
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The A to Z of presentations, Eric Gamer Paragraph Writing. H.S.Bhatia, Ramesh Publishing House, New Delhi. Essay Writing. Modern Essays. Uma Kant Singh A Book of School Essays, Letter Writing, Summary, Reporting. Sangram Keshari Rout\ Applications of Non-Verbal Communications. Ronald E.Riggio, Robert s Feldman, Lawrence Eribalum
SATAVAHANA UNIVERSITY Foundation Course Professional Communication Under Choice Based Credit System 2016-17
Model Question Paper Common Paper for all I Semester P.G. Courses Internal Assessment Time: 30 mts Maximum Marks: 10
10 multiple choice questions to be set. Each question carries half mark (10x1/2=5marks) 10 Questions to be set (Filling in the blanks). Each question carries half mark (10x1/2=5marks)
SATAVAHANA UNIVERSITY Foundation Course Professional Communication Under Choice Based Credit System 2016-17 Common Paper for all I Semester P.G.Courses Model Question Paper
SEMESTER EXAMINATION Maximum Marks: 40
I) Answer any two out of four questions (2x5=10) i) ii) iii) iv)
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II) Answer any two questions with one each from two units (2x15=30)
A or B A or B
APPROVED TOPICS FOR SEMINARS AND PROJECT WORK FOR THE STUDENTS OF M.A. ENGLISH OF SU (with effect from the academic year 2018-19)
“Project Work” in the Fourth Semester for Paper V ENG 405 as B (4 Credits)
Semester I Paper 1 ENG 101: The English Language: History, Description and Practice
1. Indo-European Family of Languages and its Branches 2. Modern English: Spelling, Pronunciation, Vocabulary 3. Major Changes in the English Language during Middle English Period 4. The Rise of Standard English 5. Foreign Contribution to the Growth of Vocabulary: Influence of Greek, Latin, French and German on the English language 6. Word Formation, Different Processes 7. Change of Meaning, Different Processes 8. Structure of the English Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase 9. Sentence Types 10. Coordination and Subordination 11. The Standard Dialect 12. Registers 13. Jargons and Slangs 14. British English and American English 15. Functional Grammar: Transformations 16. Functional Usage: Introductions, Questions, Polite replies, Complaints, Apologies, Turn Takings, Permissions, Invitations, Compliments, Sympathies 17. Telephone Etiquette
Semester I: Paper II ENG 102 English Poetry
18. John Donne’s poems (open ended) 19. William Blake’s poems (open ended) 20. PB Shelley’s poems (open ended) 21. John Keats’s poems (open ended)
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22. Browning’s poems (open ended) 23. Tennyson’s poems (open ended) 24. Matthew Arnold’s poems (open ended) 25. TS Eliot’s poems (open ended)
Paper III ENG 103 English Drama
26. Shakespeare’s Dramas (open ended) 27. Enactment of select scenes with recitation (open ended) 28. Collection of celebrated lines from the plays (open ended)
Paper IV ENG 104 A English Language and Phonetics (4 Credits)
29. Language and its Features 30. Differences between Animal and Human Communication 31. Types of Verbal Communication 32. Non-verbal Communication Aspects 33. Phonetics, Organs of Speech, Speech Mechanism 34. Phonetic Sounds, Classification, IPA, 35. Phonemic Transcription (from A to Z from Daniel Jones’s EPD) (open ended) 36. Description of Consonant Sounds and Vowel Sounds 37. Word Accent and Stress 38. Consonant Clusters 39. Aspects of Connected Speech 40. Intonation 41. Levels of Language Description 42. Morphology 43. Syntax
Paper IV ENG 104 B Discourse Analysis (4 Credits)
44. Discourse Analysis and Approaches 45. Coherence and Cohesion 46. Corpus-based Approaches 47. Critical Discourse Analysis
Paper V ENG 105 A Modern Indian Literatures in Translation (4 Credits)
48. Indian Concept of Translation 49. Indian Dramatic Traditions 50. Dalit Aesthetics 51. Enactment of select scenes from Chandalika, Silence! The Court is in Session and Hayavadana (open ended)
Paper V ENG 105 B Cultural Studies (4 Credits)
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52. Cultural Studies 53. Modernity 54. Postmodernity 55. Gender-Feminism 56. Globalization 57. Diaspora 58. Multiculturalism 59. Popular Culture 60. Culture Industry, Media, Television, Consumerism 61. Science, Technology and Cultural Studies 62. Cyber-culture
M.A. (Previous) Semester II
Paper I: ENG 201 English Language Teaching: History, Approaches and Methods (5 credits)
63. History of English Language Teaching in India 64. Teaching English as a Second Language 65. Teaching English as a Foreign Language 66. Behaviourism and its Implications 67. Cognitivism and its Implications for ELT 68. Language Acquisition Process 69. Differences between FL Acquisition and SL Learning Approaches and Methods 70. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) 71. Task Based Learning and Teaching 72. Humanistic Approaches 73. Community Language Learning 74. Suggestopedia 75. Teaching LSRW and their Sub-skills 76. Types of Syllabi: Structural, Notional, Functional, Task-based 77. Language Testing 78. Characteristic Features of an Effective Test 79. Testing Language Skills
Paper II ENG 202 English Prose (5 credits) 80. Origin and Development of the English Essay
Paper II ENG 203 English Fiction (5 credits) 81. The Rise of Novel
Paper IV ENG 204 A Women’s Writing (4 credits) 82. Women’s Liberation Movement 83. Gyno-criticism
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Paper IV ENG 204 B Gender Studies (4 credits) 84. Femininity 85. Masculinity
Paper V ENG 205 A 20th Century Literary Criticism and Theory (4 credits) 86. New Criticism 87. Structuralism 88. Post-structuralism 89. Reader Response Theories 90. New Historicism 91. Psychoanalytical Criticism
Paper V ENG 205 B Translation Studies (4 Credits)
92. Purpose and Importance of Translation 93. Source Language and Target Language 94. Recreation, Trans-creation, Interpretation 95. Specialized Types of Translation 96. Tools of Translation 97. Problems of Translation
Semester III
Paper I ENG 301 English Language Teaching: Classroom Techniques and Practical English (5 Credits)
98. Error Analysis Theory 99. Remedial Teaching 100. Techniques of Teaching Grammar 101. Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary 102. Techniques of Teaching Prose 103. Techniques of Teaching Poetry 104. Techniques of Teaching Drama 105. Classroom Techniques 106. Team Teaching 107. Teaching Large Classes 108. Teaching Aids 109. Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) 110. Importance of English Language Laboratory 111. Teaching of Literature 112. Practical English 113. Presentation Skills 114. Techniques of Teaching Elocution 115. Techniques of Teaching Debates 116. Techniques of Teaching Compeering 117. Techniques of Conducting Interviews 43
118. Techniques of Teaching Group Discussions 119. Corporate / business communication 120. Office Memos (IOMs) 121. Model Notices 122. Agenda and Minutes of Meeting
Paper II ENG 302 American Literature—I (5 Credits)
123. Puritanism 124. Transcendentalism 125. The American Romantics 126. American Frontier
Paper II ENG 303 Indian Writing in English—I (5 Credits)
127. 19th Century Reform Movements in India 128. The Indian National Movement 129. Rise of the Indian Novel 130. The New Indian Woman
Paper IV ENG 304 (A) Postcolonial Literatures (4 credits)
131. Colonialism 132. Post-colonialism 133. Decolonization 134. Neocolonialism 135. Universalism 136. Euro-centrism
Paper IV ENG 304 (B) Modern European Classics in Translation (4 Credits)
137. The Enlightenment 138. Epic Theater 139. Realism 140. Naturalism
Paper V ENG 305 (A) Literature and Film (Inter-disciplinary) (4 Credits)
141. Narrative Elements 142. Cinematography 143. Film Genres 144. Reviews of the movies watched
Paper V ENG 305 (B) Literature and Film (Inter-disciplinary) (4 Credits)
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145. Multimedia 146. Internet 147. Speech Synthesis 148. Types of CALL Packages 149. Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) 150. Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) 151. Technology Enhanced Language Learning
M.A. (FINAL) SEMESTER IV
Paper I ENG 401 English Language Teaching: Major Developments in L1 and L2 (5 credits)
152. Language Acquisition and Learning 153. Learning Disabilities 154. Major Findings in L2 Research 155. Models of Second Language Acquisition 157. Language Learning Strategies (LLS) 158. Modern Research on LLS 159. World Englishes 160. Principles of Designing ESP courses 161. Socio-Linguistics 162. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) 163. English for Science and Technology (EST) 164. English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) 165. Testing GDs and Interviews 166. Designing Objective Type Tests 167. Study of the Samples of TOEFL 168. Study of the Samples of IELTS 169. Competitive Tests at State and National Levels
Paper II ENG 402 American Literature—II (5 credits)
170. American Dream 172. Multiculturalism 173. Realism
Paper II ENG 403 Indian Writing in English—II (5 credits)
174. Partition Literature 175. Nation-Nationalism 176. Counter Discourse 177. Subalternity
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178. Identity Movements
Paper IV ENG 404 A Academic Writing and Research Methodology (4 Credits)
179. Factors Influencing Effective Writing 180. Mechanics of Writing 181. Features of Academic Writing 182. Study Skills 183. Academic Skills 184. Essay Writing 185. Report Writing 186. Evaluation Reports 187. Writing for Media 188. Writing Book Reviews 189. Writing Film Reviews 190. Criteria of Good Research 191. Avoiding Plagiarism 192. Types of Research 193. Research Tools 194. Writing a Thesis / Dissertation 195. Preparing an outline for Research Articles 196. Documentation Formats, APA style 197. Documentation Formats, MLA style
Paper IV ENG 404 B Fourth World Literatures
198. Indigenous Literature 199. Aesthetics of Dalit Literature 200. Australian Aboriginal Literature 201. Interviews of Living Authors (open ended)
Paper V ENG 405 A South Asian Literature (4 Credits)
202. South Asian Diaspora 203. Migration and Exile 204. South Asia and Globalization 205. Ethnicity
Seminars on all the above topics: 2 Hours per week (2 credits)
Foundation Course (P.G.):
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
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(Common Paper for all First Semester P.G. Courses from 2017 onwards. Number of Hours: 30, Credits: 02)
1. Agenda 2. Applications 3. Corporate Writing 4. E-mails 5. Debates and Group Discussions 6. Essay Writing 7. Instructions 8. Interviews 9. Letter Writing 10. Memoranda 11. Minutes 12. Mobile (Telephone) Etiquette 13. Non-Verbal Communication (Body Language) 14. Notices 15. Paragraph Writing 16. Principles of Good Writing 17. Presentation Skills (Power Point Presentation (PPP), Formats, Designing Proposals) 18. Public Speaking 19. Report Writing 20. Resume Writing 21. Role Plays (Formal and Informal) 22. Tele Conferencing 23. Thesis Writing 24. Verbal Communication 25. Writing Skills
Guidelines for completing the Project Work: a) A Monograph in 20 to 30 pages under the guidance of the teacher concerned has to be submitted for evaluation. b) The Monograph should be based on the above approved topics. c) The Monograph will be evaluated by an external examiner from affiliated colleges to SU. d) 70 marks for the Monograph and 30 marks for the Viva are allotted.
Guidelines for conducting the Classroom Seminars:
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a) A written paper in 5 to 6 pages has to be submitted on the above approved topics. b) Presentation, preferably with PPP, should be done in the presence of teachers and the students present. c) A Registrar has to be maintained with the signatures of the presenter and the participants by the Coordinator to be decided by the Head. d) One Seminar in the Third Semester and another one in the Fourth Semester are to be conducted after completion of the second internals. e) Each Presentation earns 2 credits equivalent to 20 marks, 10 marks for the paper and 10 marks for the presentation with PPP.
The above things were approved by the following members of BoS in English (UG & PG) on February 4, 2019:
1. Prof G. Damodar, Chairman, BoS in English, SU 2. Prof K. Purushotham, KU (External Member for PG) 3. Dr B. Deepa Jyothi, KU (External Member for UG) 4. Dr M. Prabhakar, Member, KU 5. Dr V. Pradeep Raj, HoD, SU 6. Mr D. Vijay Prakash, Member, SU 7. Dr S. Odelu Kumar, Member SRRGASC, Karimnagar 8. Mrs J. Uma Maheswari, SRRGASC, Karimnagar 9. Mrs P.D. Sujatha, GDC, Jammikunta 10. Mrs A. Meenakshi, GDCW, Karimnagar
October 23, 2018, revised on September 6, 2019 with CALL paper, GDR
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